Spruce Tip Beer. A Haiku. A train, a glacier, a howl. A late night walk down a deserted main street. One white blossom set in the deep leaf of a rhubarb. And forty people who notice it. Faculty member Lynn Schooler with conference participants Maggie and Carolyn Just thinking about the North Words Writers […]
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I know a dedicated woman who worked for years on her first novel. Over and over again she tried to sell it, always revising it to meet publishers’ expectations. Finally she burned it. She threw a big party, invited her friends over, served up food and drinks, and tossed her masterpiece into the flames, page-by-page.
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Conference season is upon us and the North Words Writers Symposium got us off to a great start in Skagway last week – thank you Jeff Brady, Buckwheat, and all the other organizers who make this unique event possible. Next year’s keynote will be Mary Roach! Eowyn Ivey, photo by Steven Nowers Coming up next
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The summer season of literary gatherings is officially underway with the North Words Writers Symposium in beautiful Skagway, Alaska, May 28-31! We look forward to reports from faculty and attendees but early posts on Facebook suggest a good time is being had by all. If you’re there, say hello to 49 Writers board members Katrina
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The VW hippie van smelled of incense and insurrection. Neil Young sang on the tape deck. Issues of Rolling Stone lay about, dog-eared, coffee-stained. The heater blasted on full. The woman driver snapped gum with her big teeth as we rolled south into Utah. In military fatigues and wire-rim glasses, the guy who looked
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“Brevity, brevity, brevity,” Mrs. Jovanovich said to me in high school senior English. “What’s wrong with brevity, brevity, brevity?” “I dunno,” I replied. “It needs to be said only once.” “Oh, yeah… ” Man, was I stupid. Bless her heart, Mrs. J. must have seen something in me nobody else did: a break in my
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Kim Heacox On a cold November morning distant in my past yet vivid in my mind, I walk across London’s Abbey Road. It takes less than a minute, the same as I imagine it took the Beatles when photographed for their famous album cover. The sun shines bright in a blue cloudless sky. A woman
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FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 6-10:30pm. It’s Write-a-thon time! Save the date and get the details here. This is our premiere fundraising event of the year and a great way to show your support for the literary arts in Alaska, while working on your own contribution to the state’s growing body of literature! It was such a treat
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Registration is open, but limited to fifty, for the third annual North Words Writers Symposium in Skagway, May 30-June 2, 2012. I’ll be there, as will other Alaskan writers Seth Kantner, Kim Heacox, Deb Vanasse, John Straley, Nick Jans, Dan Henry, David Hunsaker, and Jeff Brady. This year’s keynote speaker is New York-based screenwriter Scott Silver
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